“Healing occurs through the recognition of and remembrance to the timeless, formless, unlimited dimension of our Being.”

Over the past ten years, a journey of Self inquiry has pilgrimed me around the world, asking the question: “Who Am I?” Beyond name, age, personal history, body, beliefs, likes, dislikes, ideas, concepts and emotions…

Who is this “I” that experiences it all?

From ashrams to ayahuasca, psychology to psychotherapy, conscious dance to creative arts, community living to months in silent meditation— it’s been a wild, beautiful, humbling and enlightening journey.

Now, I share what I have learnt through the practice of Laprana— an approach of support for the re-orientation and movement towards the embodied experience of the Self, via the gateway of body and mind and through the vehicle of creativity.

Through attending to your arising somatic experience (felt-sensing), we give form and transform the places of ‘stored aliveness’ in the body - then, the Self is revealed…

naturally, effortlessly, spontaneously and through grace.

A more detailed bio of me…

It was the desire to share healing with others that initially led me to complete an honors degree in psychology at Queensland University of Technology. Irritated at the dualism of the biomedical model and sensing there was more to healing than psychology could offer, I moved to an ashram in the foothills of the Northern Indian Himalayas to study yogic philosophy and the wisdom of the Vedas. Eventually, I began teaching yoga and meditation in India. From India, I moved to Sri Lanka to support the establishment of a community mental health program in Colombo, founded on a mind-body model of health. In 2015, I relocated to Melbourne where I slowly begun to weave the wisdom of Eastern philosophy together with Western studies of neuropsychology.

In doing so, I founded Laprana, a holistic integrative health practice based in north east Melbourne.

Feeling called to deepen my knowledge about healing and whole-ing, particularly from the world’s indigenous cultures, I have spent the the last 10 years travelling through Australia, Africa, Asia, India, Nepal, Turkey, Cyprus, Portugal, Eiré (Ireland), Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Perú on a journey of discovery

I am continuously inspired by the vastness, richness and deep contrast of the individual and the individuation of cultures and tradition. Yet even more so, by that which seems to pervade historical time, geographical space, cultural language and tradition. That which stays the same.

It’s that,

‘that-ness’,

that I am sharing.

My time spent in various indigenous communities has allowed me to witness the peaceful resilience and wellbeing that seems to effortlessly arise in both individuals and communities living in trust and surrender to something Greater, even among political, physical and social upheaval. There always seems to be a collective, shared aliveness within these places and spaces, a sacred reciprocity or ‘Ayni’ with nature, spirit, the elements, each other and more-than-human kin. Time in collective communities has illuminated the power and potency of entheogenic earth medicine, when used in combination with the expressive and creative arts (song, dance, sound and ceremony) to transcend the limitations of mind through a freeing of the spirit. Upon returning to Australia, I completed a Master’s degree in Therapeutic Arts Practice at The Melbourne Institute of Experiential & Creative Arts Therapies (MIECAT) and later, a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.

These days, I seldom work with medicine. Instead, I focus on earth-based wisdom from my own Celtic Irish (Eiré) ancestral roots, combined with expanded states of consciousness via meditation. This provides me with the knowledge of how to best serve the integration of expanded states of consciousness into the body-mind, for the individual and hence, for the collective.

How I work with clients…

I take a therapeutic arts-based companioning approach, held by the values of curiosity, trust and emergence (grace). As a companion, I walk alongside you in your journey, supporting the development of the inquirer’s own inner knower- healer through curious and attuned attentiveness. This then supports the journey of living experience and finding one’s aliveness. With loving respect for you and your path, I hold faith that it is one of healing and wholeness.

My therapeutic approach…

My approach to Laprana is based in mindfulness (bringing awareness to the present moment), underpinned by transpersonal and existential psychology (asking broader questions, like ‘who am I?). With roots in deep ecology, I am interested in improving the health and vitality of the whole by exploring ways to deepen your relationship with earth and spirit. My way of being with clients (inquirers) is open, curious, intuitive and direct.

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